Thanks for the reminder mpt. For the record, our initial approach a couple of years ago was to strictly follow Mozilla’s recommendations. However, we faced two severe issues that made us change our approach:
- A vast majority of popular websites were serving incorrect content. Sometimes, it was even worse than just getting a desktop version, the "mobi" token would get us WAP-oriented content, or plainly broken content. - Evangelizing takes time and energy, and we realistically don’t have the resources to do that properly. Even just promoting and coordinating a 100% community effort would require more resources than we have at our disposal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328183 Title: User-Agent string results in poor UX on web Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: The User-Agent string for the browser is similar enough to the Android browser User-Agent, that it creates a poor experience when browsing the web on an Ubuntu phone. An inordinately large number of web sites persistently advertise to "install our app" instead of providing the best web experience; an app which cannot be installed. This is exacerbated by the pervasiveness of webapps on Ubuntu phone, which simply embed the mobile web site with webapp-container, and still result in seeing such advertisements, despite the fact that the "app" on Ubuntu is already installed, and the Android apps being advertised are simply not installable. Having all the big web sites telling users of Ubuntu that they should be using Android instead, is not very good for the user experience at all. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1328183/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
